Tenant lost his job 5 months into 1 yr lease...

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi Awesome people,

I have a 4 bedroom house occupied by three young professionals and one of them recently lost their job. He's interested to move out due to lack of funding, but they are a few months into a one year lease. Unfortunately I did not include an early termination clause in the lease. I believe the other two housemates would like to stay, so one solution is for them to find a substitute and allow the unemployed to move on. 

Any thoughts on this? 

• Is it appropriate to toss the lease, or should I hold him to the agreement?
• Should I charge a fee for changing the lease? 
• Should I start a new 1 yr lease? 
• Any recommendations on the deposit/cleaning topic?
• Any loose ends you think I may be missing?

I'm sorry, I'm new at this and admittingly not great at it...